A Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale for adult populations
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This paper proposes a revised version of the original Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale developed by Weber, Blais, and Betz (2002) that is shorter and applicable to a {broader range of ages, cultures, and educational levels}. It also provides a French translation of the revised scale. Using multilevel modeling, we investigated the risk-return relationship between apparent risk taking and risk perception in 5 risk domains. The results replicate previously noted differences in reported degree of risk taking and risk perception at the mean level of analysis. The multilevel modeling shows, more interestingly, that within-participants variation in risk taking across the 5 content domains of the scale was about 7 times as large as between-participants variation. We discuss the implications of our findings in terms of the person-situation debate related to risk attitude as a stable trait.
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A prior study found no evidence of a correlation between risk attitude measured by the DOSPERT scale and self-reported procrastination tendency measured by the Lay Procrastination Scale.
“A prior study38 found no evidence of a correlation between the risk attitude measured by the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) scale39 and self-reported procrastination tendency measured by the Lay Procrastination Scale40.”
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- Authors
- Blais, A.-R., & Weber, E. U.
- Affiliations
- Defence Research and Development Canada (CA)
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Blais, Ann-Renée
- Weber, Elke U.
- ORCID
- Weber, Elke U.
- Venue
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2006-07
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 33-47
- ISSN
- 1930-2975 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2118185477
- Cited by
- 1,286
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 5.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Judgment and Decision Making (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
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- Érudit documents and data repository (Érudit Consortium, University of Montreal) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Keywords
- risk-taking, risk perception, risk-return tradeoff, person-situation debate, trait stability, within-person variability, between-person variation, scale revision, French translation, adults
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